appropriator
One who seizes
An appropriator is someone who takes something for their own use, often without permission or right.
The term appears in discussions of cultural appropriation, where it describes those who adopt elements from marginalized cultures: Critics called the fashion designer an appropriator of indigenous designs.
In legislative contexts, an appropriator is a lawmaker who allocates funds.
One who takes possession
- confiscatorOne who takes property
- encroacherOne who intrudes gradually
- trespasserUnlawful entrant on property
- invaderOne who enters aggressively
occupier · colonizer · dispossessor · squatter · claimant · usurper · plunderer · conqueror
One stealing others' writing
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- infringerOne who violates rights
- copierMachine reproducing documents
- stealerOne who takes illicitly
poacher · embezzler · misappropriator · bootlegger · counterfeiter · imitator · forger · swindler
One who takes temporarily
- adopterOne who takes in
- colonizerOne who occupies foreign land
- exploiterOne who uses unfairly
- fetishizerOne who obsessively fixates
outsider · mainstream · dominant culture · erasure · misrepresentation · profiting · sacred · indigenous
Plan for spending
- fundsAvailable financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- distributionAllocation across recipients
- allotmentDesignated share or portion
apportionment · earmarking · disbursement · rationing · quota · grant · endowment · provision
U.S. lawmaking body
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- subcommitteeSubset of larger panel
- billAmount owed, written
- spending billLaw authorizing government expenditures
omnibus · markup · authorization · oversight · House · Senate · federal · discretionary
seizer
One who takes possession
- confiscatorOne who takes property
- encroacherOne who intrudes gradually
- trespasserUnlawful entrant on property
invader · occupier · colonizer · dispossessor · squatter · claimant · usurper · plunderer · conqueror · raider
plagiarist
One stealing others' writing
- pirateMaritime thief or bootlegger
- infringerOne who violates rights
- copierMachine reproducing documents
stealer · poacher · embezzler · misappropriator · bootlegger · counterfeiter · imitator · forger · swindler · fraudster
borrower
One who takes temporarily
fetishizer · outsider · mainstream · dominant culture · erasure · misrepresentation · profiting · sacred · indigenous · marginalized
budget
Plan for spending
- fundsAvailable financial resources
- resourcesAvailable assets or supplies
- distributionAllocation across recipients
allotment · apportionment · earmarking · disbursement · rationing · quota · grant · endowment · provision · assignment
Congress
U.S. lawmaking body
- committeeAppointed group for duties
- subcommitteeSubset of larger panel
- billAmount owed, written
spending bill · omnibus · markup · authorization · oversight · House · Senate · federal · discretionary · mandatory
- legislatorslegislator, lawmaker, member of parliament, state senator, assemblyman
appropriatorgiver
One who bestows
donor · benefactor · contributor · grantor · bestower
- cultural appropriationMisusing another group's traditions
- age appropriateFitting for one's maturity
- appropriations billLegislation authorizing government expenditures
- age-appropriate contentMedia matching viewer maturity
- culturally appropriatingAdopting elements from marginalized groups
- culturally appropriatedAdopted from another culture insensitively
appropriate, appropriately, appropriated, appropriation, appropriateness, appropriating, appropriates, appropriations, appropriators